NYC compute can't be served from Iowa.

Sub-5ms latency to NYC users is a geographic constraint, not a technology problem. No campus 1,500 miles away can fix it — and no amount of hyperscale supply in Loudoun County, Texas, or Iowa moves the closest GPU one mile nearer to Manhattan.

Established GPU operators serving NYC inference workloads need rack space inside the city itself. The closer the customer, the harder the requirement.

The fastest deployment is no new building.

Purpose-built data centers take 3+ years from siting to commissioning. Land. Permits. Utility interconnect. Construction. Most NYC tenants can't wait that long.

UrbanCore retrofits buildings that already have the service capacity, the structural fit, and the cooling envelope. A node goes online in months — and we deploy a portfolio of them in parallel.

Compute heat is multifamily hot water.

GPUs run 24/7 at sustained load. So does a multifamily building's domestic hot water demand. The two profiles match almost perfectly — recovered waste heat preheats the building's DHW system around the clock.

For tenants, it shows up as lower effective $/kW: the building captures recovery value back into the facility cost stack instead of rejecting it to the alley. For owners, it's a major utility line item replaced and credible progress against Local Law 97 — without writing a check. Landlord wins, tenant wins, decarbonization wins.

190 prequalified sites across NYC.

2,169 NYC properties scored on service capacity, structural fit, and ConEd network position. 190 currently rank deploy-ready — Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx — with hundreds more in deeper qualification.

Powered shell at retrofit economics.

UrbanCore is a powered shell operator. Tenants ship pre-fab liquid-cooled racks; UrbanCore delivers power, cooling, fire, fiber, and environmental SLAs to the CDU. Scheduled and on-demand remote hands are available, backed by Dual Fuel Company LLC's 24/7 NYC service operation — the same dispatch infrastructure servicing 700+ NYC buildings under active mechanical contract today.

Each node is sized 100 kW – 1 MW; tenants take capacity at a single site or aggregate multi-MW across the distributed fleet. Workloads architected for geographic distribution gain redundancy and proximity to NYC users at the same time.

The whole model rides on a cost basis no greenfield NYC facility can match. We don't buy land. We don't build buildings. We don't wait three years for a utility interconnect. We retrofit infrastructure that already exists, and we price below operators who can't.